In this ethnography, I explored the impact of an HIV/AIDS education program on the lives
of 24 Ugandan nurses and nurse-midwives. Nurses who previously had viewed themselves simply as providers of advice and sympathy ...

The present study investigated the impact of survey administration format, survey description, and gambling behaviour thresholds on obtained population prevalence rates of problem gambling. A total of 3,028 adults were ...

Research indicates that approximately one third of prison inmates meet the criteria for problem or pathological gambling (Williams, Royston, & Hagen, 2005). However, despite this rate being among the highest of all gambling ...

This study used a qualitative method to examine eight men’s motivations for weight lifting and steroid use. Results indicated that these men desired self-improvement, but their goal of obtaining the ideal masculine body ...

The incidence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) in northeastern Manitoba was investigated by examining all 745 live births occurring in Thompson General Hospital in 1994. Birth records were screened with criteria designed ...

An existential phenomenological method of study was implemented to better understand the recovery process of 11 pathological gamblers. After analysis, seven recovery themes were generated, which brought to light that ...

Williams, Robert J.; Wood, Robert T.(Report prepared for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA.School of Health SciencesArts and ScienceSociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007-08-31)

This review is an attempt to comprehensively identify and synthesize the literature concerning Internet gambling.

Wood, Robert T.; Williams, Robert J.(ElsevierArts and ScienceSchool of Health SciencesSociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007)

In light of continued and rapid expansion, and in light of existing ambiguities and gaps in current knowledge, this chapter seeks to highlight the major trends and issues associated with Internet gambling today. This is ...

Wood, Robert T.; Williams, Robert J.(Final Report prepared for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre; Guelph, OntarioArts and ScienceSchool of Health SciencesSociologyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009-01-05)

Beginning in the early to mid-1990s, as Internet access expanded into workplaces and private residences, gamblers in Western societies were introduced to a new realm of gambling opportunities, based on the Internet. Each ...

Early research into the motivations behind problem gambling reflected separate
paradigms of thought splitting our understanding of the gambler into divergent categories.
However, over the past 25 years, problem gambling ...

Early research into the motivations behind problem gambling reflected separate paradigms of thought splitting our understanding of the gambler into divergent categories. However, over the past 25 years, problem gambling ...

This paper introduces a transpersonal approach to conducting phenomenological research with the emphasis
on illuminating a first person account of a sudden awakening. Although within Eastern cultures awakening is
typically ...

Objective: To investigate knowledge about fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) among Natives in northern Manitoba. A second objective was to determine if there are age or gender differences in level of knowledge. A third objective ...

Risk has been considered as the probability of experiencing adverse events. Understanding
risk and vulnerability is essential to disaster management and recovery. Through qualitative interviews in a community that experienced ...

The purpose of this article is to examine the phenomenon of pathological gambling
and addiction from the perspective of writer and teacher A.H Almaas. By drawing on
his Diamond Mind approach we trace the origin of addictive ...

The objective of the longitudinal study was to monitor physical and cognitive changes in a population of 330 older people being supported at home by health services. The participants were 75 years and older and classified ...

Frequent substance use has a strong association with poor
mental health. The relationship between infrequent substance use and
mental health is less clear. The present study investigated this relationship
in a large ...

The prevalence of methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine misuse and abuse was examined in 450 adolescents referred for substance abuse treatment. Twenty three percent reported nonmedical use of these substances and six ...

Background: The phenomenon of moral distress among nurses has been described in a variety of high-income countries and practice settings. Defined as the biopsychosocial,
cognitive, and behavioural effects experienced by ...

These approaches complement one another while adding to our overall understanding of rural nursing practice. For example, the RNDB had not previously been analysed with rural nurses in mind. The demographic profile of rural ...